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Ostensibly about time travel, this novel's real focus is the effects of generational trauma and parental neglect. Ursa makes a new life for herself in California, her ability to travel into her own past a gift that draws followers to her remote home. Her son Ray escapes, yet when his daughter Opal displays the same talent, it threatens to destroy their family. Ursa is truly awful, and her form of time travel seems more like a trap than a gift.

#tob24 long list

Another just okay read from the list for me. As a fan of a sci-fi, time travel, and books about cults, I liked many aspects in this complex story following a woman, Ursa, who can travel back to memories of her past.

This story has a lot to it with trauma, love, and family relationships. In the end, it could have used some editing because all of the different themes become heavy and ultimately get lost amongst each other.

I'm still working on a few from the #tob24 list that I already had checked out, but these are my library holds that I have gotten in the past two days.

Have you read any that you liked from these?

This multigenerational story unfolds across California from the 1960s-early 2000. Ursa escapes her own traumatic upbringing for San Francisco after realizing she has an uncanny ability to slip into her own past in a sort of time traveling. Eventually this ability brings a flock of women to her. Skipping across years, with plenty of emotion, listening to this was an immersive experience where I never really knew where it would go next. Absorbing!

This could‘ve been edited a bit shorter, but I was WRAPPED UP in this tale of abandonment, trauma and love.

Ursa had a difficult childhood, but she discovers a gift for time travel to past points in her life. She has a son and founds a commune based on her powers. Her son hates her for the way children are treated there. When he and another teen there have a baby, they run away to LA, but problems arise when the baby shows her grandmother‘s gift.

#ARC #NetGalley While beautifully and remarkably written, this book was wayyyyyy too long. A clever (at times pretentious) time transport literary novel. Ursa née Sharon escapes her abusive home and arrives in San Francisco where she meets and befriends a wealthy woman. Under Caron‘s tutelage Ursa creates a haven for runaways in the hills of California. Using her gifts Ursa alters the lives of those seeking community while alienating her family.